The Top 50 Restaurants of 2009

Ramsay Missing From the World's Best Restaurants List

Yesterday Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino announced its famed list of the world's 50 best restaurants. The list is developed by a large panel of well-regarded international judges consisting of 806 chefs, restaurateurs, food critics, and journalists.

For the fourth year in a row, Ferran Adriá's experimental Spanish restaurant, El Bulli, has been named the best eatery in the world. Coming in at sixth, Thomas Keller's Per Se is the highest-ranking US restaurant.

I like to think that the family restaurant, Cobb and Co., down the road from my house in NZ, which makes fish and chips in a cardboard stagecoach served with a traffic light cocktail in an old jar, <i>aaaaaand</i> has an arcade with Pacman in the corner is pretty awesome.I might belong on this list, but hey, it's all I can afford.:D

I like to think that the family restaurant, Cobb and Co., down the road from my house in NZ, which makes fish and chips in a cardboard stagecoach served with a traffic light cocktail in an old jar, aaaaaand has an arcade with Pacman in the corner is pretty awesome.
I might belong on this list, but hey, it's all I can afford.
:D

I have also tried number 3, NOMA, which was great. It was a couple of years ago and they had just changed to their spring menu. And it was literally like tasting spring with surprising and interesting combinations and textures. Yum, I should really go there again, as it is only a mile away from my apartement.

My boyfriend wants to take me to Fat Duck, but Heston Blumenthal pisses me off and I have no interest in his creations - call me ignorant, uneducated, stupid, or whatever, but his menu just does not appeal. I have tried Hakkasan's little sister, Yauatcha and really like it, so will probably try to go there sometime this year!